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In the movie Room, Brie Larson stars as Joy Newsome, a young woman who has been held captive in a garden shed for seven years. The film is adapted from the 2010 novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay. Room is told from the point of view of Jack (Jacob Tremblay), Joy's five-year-old son. Jack has never known anything beyond the confines of the small space he shares with his mother. To him, Room is the entire world. He spends his days playing, reading, and looking out of the small skylight overhead.

Joy has created a world for Jack inside Room, doing her best to provide him with love and education in the limited space they share. She takes him through daily routines and exercises, teaching him about the world beyond their walls through books and imagination.

Despite Jack's innocence, Room carries a heavy emotional weight. The audience sees the cracked walls and leaking roof and feels the suffocating sense of isolation. Though her strength as a mother keeps her going, the mental and physical toll of confinement weighs heavily on Joy.

Their enclosed lives are uprooted when Joy hatches a plan for Jack to escape. After Jack is exposed to the outside world, he begins to process the reality of his circumstances. His trauma unfolds in a raw and unfiltered way, emphasizing the difficulty of resuming a normal life after such a harrowing experience. Meanwhile, Joy must face her traumatic past and try to rebuild a relationship with her family that has moved forward without her.

The performances by Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are brilliant. Larson carries the duel portrayal of a loving yet desperate mother who must keep both herself and her son's hope alive. Tremblay's portrayal of Jack is both sweetly innocent and tragic. Joan Allen, who plays Joy's mother, Nancy, gives a powerful performance as a mother whose life has been wholly consumed by her lost daughter.

The film's director, Lenny Abrahamson, expertly brings the confined space of Room to life while maintaining a sense of intimacy. The cinematography by Danny Cohen evokes the smallness of the space while still conveying the beauty and hope that exist within it.

Room is a film that challenges its audience to experience the emotional torment of confinement and the power of love that can lead to eventual healing. It is a story of hope, resilience, and the ability to rebuild in the wake of unimaginable trauma.